The Paul B. Baltes lecture is held annually by the

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. The lectures commenced in 2008 and are named after Paul Baltes, the

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. Each year the Academy selects a leading international scientist to present the lecture which commemorates Paul Baltes` achievements in psychological research and his contributions to psychology. The Paul B. Baltes lecture is a joint initiative of the psychology institutes in Berlin and Potsdam ( Freie Universität, Humboldt-Universität,

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, Universität Potsdam,

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) and is supported by the Margret M. and Paul B. Baltes Foundation.

The Lectures

* 2008 Michael Posner: "Executive attention: Its origins, development, and functions". * 2009 Lynn Hasher: "Age-Related Consequences of Attention Regulation and Dysregulation". * 2010

John Nesselroade John Richard Nesselroade (born March 13, 1936) is an American psychologist known for his work in developmental and quantitative psychology. He is the Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of Psychology emeritus at the University of Virginia and an adju ...

: "The Person-Oriented Perspective in Psychology". * 2011 Andrew Meltzoff: "The Development of Social Cognition: Imitation, Cultural Stereotypes and Identity Formation in Children". * 2012

Jutta Heckhausen Jutta Heckhausen (born March 1957) is Professor of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine. She specializes in life-span developmental psychology, motivation, individual agency and social context. She expanded her education at th ...

: "A Motivational Theory of Life-Span Development". * 2013 Wendy Rogers: "Human-Robot Interaction:Understanding the Potential of Robots for Older Adults". * 2014 Brent W. Roberts * 2015 Ray Dolan: "Circuits for Social Cognition". * 2016 Diane Poulin-Dubois: "The developmental origins of selective trust". * 2017

Kevin Warwick Kevin Warwick (born 9 February 1954) is an English engineer and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Coventry University. He is known for his studies on direct interfaces between computer systems and the human nervous system, and has also done ...

: "Neural implants for therapy and enhancement". * 2018 Denny Borsboom: "Network approaches to psychopathology". * 2019

David Poeppel David Poeppel (born 1964 in Freiburg)
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: "The Auditory System and the Motor System, in Time". * 2020 Nora Newcombe: "Affordances and Representations: Understanding Mental Rotation, Perspective Taking and Spatial Reorientation". * 2021

Peter Hancock Peter Hancock (born 26 July 1955) is a retired Church of England bishop. He served as the Bishop of Bath and Wells from 2014 to 2021, having previously been the Bishop of Basingstoke, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Winchester, from 2010 to ...

: “Time to Think of Time”. * 2022 Stephan Lewandowsky: “Demagoguery, Technology, and Cognition: Addressing the Threats to Democracy”.

References

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